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1. Although the teacher directs the class activities, the teacher and the students are
more like partners in the teaching/learning process
The initiation of the interaction goes both ways, from teacher to students and from
student to teacher, although the latter is often teacher directed. Students converse
with one another as well.
The culture is an important thing in this method.
Language is primarily spoken, not written. Therefore, students study common,
everyday speech in the target language. They also study culture consisting of the
history of the people who speak the target language, the geography of the country
or countries where the language is spoken, and information about the daily lives of
the speakers of the language.
1. Who are the representatives of the method or approach?
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2. What are the goals of teachers who use this method?
Teachers who use the Direct Method intend that students learn how to
communicate in the target language. In order to do this successfully,
students should learn to think in the target language. Also, it was
revived as a method when the goal of instruccion became learning how
to use a foreign language to communicate.
3. What is the role of the teacher? What is the role of the students?
4. Main characteristics of the teaching/learning process
In fact, the syllabus used in the Direct Method is based upon situations (for
example, one unit would consist of language that people would use at a
bank, another of the language that they use when going shopping) or topics
(such as geography, money, or the weather). Grammar is taught inductively;
that is, the students are presented with examples and they figure out the rule
or generalization from the examples. An explicit grammar rule may never be
given. Students practice vocabulary by using new words in complete
sentences
5. What is the nature of student-teacher interaction? What is the nature
of student-student interaction?
6. How are the feelings of the students dealt with?
There are no principles of the method which relate to this area
7. How is language viewed? How is culture viewed?

2. 8. What areas of language are emphasized? What language skills are
emphasized?
Vocabulary is emphasized over grammar. Although work on all four
Skills, this occurs from the start, oral communication is seen as basic.
Thus the reading and writing exercises are based upon what the
students practice orally first. Pronunciation also receives attention
right from the beginning of a course .
9. What is the role of students’ native language?
The students' native language should not be used in the classroom.
10.How is the evaluation accomplished?
We did not actually see any formal evaluation in the class we
observed; however, in the Direct Method, students are asked to use
the language, not to demonstrate their knowledge about the language.
They are asked to do so using both oral and written skills. For example,
the students might the interviewed orally by the teacher or might be
asked to write a paragraph about something they have studied.
11.How does the teacher respond to students errors?
The teacher, employing various techniques , tries to get students to
self-correct whenever possible.